The peace I am thinking of is the dance of an open mind when it engages another equally open one.
Toni MorrisonThe men began to trade tales of atrocities, first stories they had heard, then those they'd witnessed, and finally the things that had happened to themselves. A litany of personal humiliation, outrage, and anger turned sicklelike back to themselves as humor. They laughed then, uproariously, about the speed with which they had run, the pose they had assumed, the ruse they had invented to escape or decrease some threat to their manliness, their humanness. All but Empire State, who stood, broom in hand and drop-lipped, with the expression of a very intelligent ten-year-old.
Toni MorrisonFor a long time I was convinced that the conflict between Jewish people and black people in this country was a media event.
Toni MorrisonI don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.
Toni Morrison